Raw video from the field here. The John Moyle Memorial Field Day roared into life at midday on 18 March, as did the Society’s centenary Special Event Station VI 100 MB /portable. Dom VK2JNA, Leo VK2LEO, and Nick VK2FS set up the club’s portable station, at Culburra Beach just east of Nowra NSW, locator QF55JB. […]
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Author: Richard Murnane VK2SKY
Another walk in the park
Several members of the club (Carmel VK2CAR, Colin VK2JCC, and Richard VK2SKY) were active portable at Rofe Park in Hornsby Heights today, 17 March 2023. The aim this time was to call in to the Westlakes Amateur Radio Club net (Mon/Wed/Fri at 9.30am on 7115kHz), just for the fun of it. The Westlakes folks were […]
A Walk (and a Net) in the Park
The Hornsby and District Amateur Radio Club holds its weekly Morning Tea with HADARC net on 7106kHz every Friday morning from 9am. MWRS members Carmel VK2CAR, Colin VK2JCC, Stuart VK2BMX and others call into the net from different parks around northern Sydney each week. This morning Richard VK2SKY came along to do a photo essay… […]
100 Years and Counting!
On Sunday 26 Feb 2023, members turned out for a party to mark the end of the first hundred years since the formation of the Manly & District Radio Club, and its modern incarnation, the Manly-Warringah Radio Society. It was at 8pm on 26 February 1923 that the original club met for the first time: […]
MWRS Knows Balloons too…
Balloons have been in the news a lot recently, with an alleged Chinese communication surveillance balloon detected over the USA and shot down last week, another seen over Latin America… It turns out that the Manly-Warringah Radio Society is not exactly a stranger to ballooning either. In June 1993, Australian entrepreneur, and now Honorary Life […]
January 2023 Lecture – Troubleshooting Roman Dodecahedrons
The club’s first lecture for 2023 was presented by Gavin Smith, who spoke on the topic, “Troubleshooting Ancient Roman Dodecahedrons”. Most of us know that a dodecahedron is a three-dimensional shape having twelve faces, each of which is usually a pentagon. But, did you know that many mysterious bronze dodecahedrons, dating back to the Roman […]
“Early Bird” net reaches 15,000!
On 3 January 2023, Dom VK2JNA reported that the club’s regular Early Bird net had reached 15,000. That is, every morning for the last 41 years, at 6.30am, club members have got together on 80 metres to start the day with a chat on Amateur Radio. The first Early Bird Net took place on Thursday […]
26-Nov-2022 Spring VHF/UHF Field Day
VK2MB/portable was active in this year’s Spring VHF/UHF Field Day; details are still coming in, so watch this space… The contest team started arriving at the clubhouse about 9.30am, to sort out the radios and antennas to be used, then headed off to the JJ Melbourne Hills Reserve, about 1km to the south. Locator QF56OH. […]
15-Oct-2022 JOTA!
Once again, the club hosted Scouts and Guides taking part in this year’s International Jamboree on the Air. A group of 62 scouts visited from a nearby school where they were camping; numbers were well down from previous years, so we cut back activities from the full weekend to just Saturday. We expect the numbers […]
24-Sep-2022 Working Bee
With JOTA (and summer) just around the corner, the club held a working bee to make the grounds safer for the young ‘uns by removing some of the fallen branches and leaves, cleaning the gutters, etc. Here are some photos collected so far from the day. Despite the forecast of thunderstorms all day, the morning […]
September 2022 Lecture – Test & Measurement
Philip Leong VK2APL reports: The Club was pleased to welcome Mr Chi Xu, Sales Director, AppVision Australia. Chi has been working in the RF industry for 15 years, as an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) engineer, RF System Integration Engineer (National Instruments) and RF Specialist (National Instruments Australia). Chi gave an enlightening talk on electronic […]
27-Aug-2022 Sydney Uni Open Day
(WIP – waiting for more photos and comments from others who were there.) It was a rainy Saturday morning in the city as the University of Sydney held its annual Open Day, and hordes of potential students (and their parents) descended on Camperdown to check out the academic offerings. Philip VK2APL, who is Professor of […]
23-Aug-2022 Cub Night
In something of a pre-JOTA warmup, the Society hosted a group from Cromer Cub Scouts for a visit on the evening of Tuesday 23 August. It was a cold, wet, night out, but the wood fire took the chill of the clubhouse, and the dozen or so scouts brought plenty of enthusiasm that kept us […]
NavShield 2022 at Tarlo River National Park
While many club members were burning up the 160m band at Berrima, some 36km to the west sou’west, Richard VK2SKY and Simon Brown VK2TW donned their WICEN uniforms to assist with Bush Search and Rescue (BSAR) NSW’s annual NavShield event. As is normal for this event, multiple emergency service agencies were involved, both as competitors […]
Club 2m “First Wednesday” net
With COVID hanging around like a bad smell, some members are still feeling a bit reluctant to come to the clubhouse. Probably with good reason, as a couple of members have come down with what some refer to as “the spicy cough”. Thankfully, there have been no serious health problems resulting, but even so, there’s […]